Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual LifeIn this newly revised English translation from the French, including a comprehensive glossary, this volume surveys the enormous range of Schuon's writngs on prayer and spiritual life. |
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... Light on the Ancient Worlds In the Tracks of Buddhism Treasures of Buddhism Logic and Transcendence Esoterism as Principle and as Way Castes and Races Sufism : Veil and Quintessence From the Divine to the Human Christianity / Islam ...
... Light on the Ancient Worlds In the Tracks of Buddhism Treasures of Buddhism Logic and Transcendence Esoterism as Principle and as Way Castes and Races Sufism : Veil and Quintessence From the Divine to the Human Christianity / Islam ...
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... light of exoteric and esoteric teaching and practice . Crucial to Schuon's exposition in The Transcendent Unity of Religions is the central importance that he accords to prayer . He concludes his study by speaking of prayer's role in ...
... light of exoteric and esoteric teaching and practice . Crucial to Schuon's exposition in The Transcendent Unity of Religions is the central importance that he accords to prayer . He concludes his study by speaking of prayer's role in ...
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... light and nothing else . Aware of this , man does not cease to stand before God , who is at once transcendent and immanent ; and it is He , not we , who decides the scope of our contemplative awareness and the mystery of our spiritual ...
... light and nothing else . Aware of this , man does not cease to stand before God , who is at once transcendent and immanent ; and it is He , not we , who decides the scope of our contemplative awareness and the mystery of our spiritual ...
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... light . What God requires above all from man is faith : an attachment with the very depths of our being to the Truth that transcends us ; now this Truth is invisible to human nature as such . If faith is the adherence of our whole being ...
... light . What God requires above all from man is faith : an attachment with the very depths of our being to the Truth that transcends us ; now this Truth is invisible to human nature as such . If faith is the adherence of our whole being ...
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... light is a different thing from putting out the light one already has . 2 Fundamental Keys Meditation , concentration , prayer : these 11 Spiritual Perspectives I.
... light is a different thing from putting out the light one already has . 2 Fundamental Keys Meditation , concentration , prayer : these 11 Spiritual Perspectives I.
Contents
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Prayer and the Integration of the Psychic Elements | 29 |
Modes of Prayer | 57 |
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Spiritual Perspectives IV | 77 |
Trials and Happiness | 89 |
Spiritual Perspectives V | 95 |
Microcosm and Symbol | 139 |
Meditation | 157 |
A Sampling of Letters | 183 |
Editors Notes | 209 |
Sources | 237 |
Index | 253 |
Biographical Notes | 267 |
Dimensions of the Human Vocation | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute according Amitabha analogy appears Arabic aspect attitude beauty become Brahma Buddha Buddhist certitude charity Christ Christian consciousness contemplation cosmic divine Name doctrine editor's note esoterism Essence Evagrius Ponticus everything evil existence expression fact faith Frithjof Schuon gnosis grace heart Heaven Hesychasts Hindu Hinduism holy human humility Ibn Arabi implies individual infinite initiatic insofar Intellect intelligence inverse invocation Islam Jesus Jesus Prayer knowledge Luke Macarius of Egypt manifestation Matt Mâyâ means meditation Meister Eckhart Mercy metaphysical microcosm mode Muslim mystical nature neighbor note for Ch note for Spiritual nothingness object oneself ourselves outward Perennial Philosophy perfect Philokalia plane point of view possible pray pride Principle priori pure reality realization reason religion sacred Saint Sanskrit sense sincerity soul speak Spiritual Perspectives Sufi Sufism Sûrah symbol things thou tion tive traditional transcendence true truth union universal unto virtue words World Wisdom Books